Ilona Antonyan is a Founding Partner of Antonyan Miranda, a litigation trial attorney, and a Certified Family Law Specialist. Ms. Antonyan became the youngest person in California to become a Certified Family Law Specialist, after achieving the rigorous requirements in only five years of practice.

Having immigrated to the United States in 1992 as an Armenian refugee, Ms. Antonyan is fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish, and is collaterally licensed as a real estate broker, and also obtained Series 7 and 66 securities licenses. Ms. Antonyan focuses her practice exclusively on family law matters, specializing in high-net worth cases and those which generally involve complex areas of law and litigation. Given her diverse cultural background, Ms. Antonyan regularly represents international businesspersons and large marital estates with an international nexus. Prior to co-founding Antonyan Miranda, Ms. Antonyan managed her own successful family law and civil litigation practice, where she achieved multi-million dollar jury verdicts on behalf of her plaintiff clients.

In recognition of her substantial family law and trial accomplishments, Ms. Antonyan was named as a Super Lawyer® in 2015-2023, and has also been selected as a Top Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript. In 2019, San Diego Metro awarded Ms. Antonyan “40 Under 40” San Diego Brightest Young Leader award. In 2020, she was recognized as one of San Diego’s Top Attorneys by the SD Metro Magazine, which relies on Martindale-Hubbell® peer review ratings in making its selection.

Concurrent to the practice of law, Ms. Antonyan teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Family Law at California Western School of Law, and also volunteers as a Judge Pro Tem in both the Family Law and Small Claims divisions of the San Diego Superior Court. Ms. Antonyan previously served three years as a Director for the San Diego County Bar Association’s Board of Directors, from 2012 through December 2015. Ms. Antonyan also speaks at various CLE and legal seminars.

Ms. Antonyan graduated Cum Laude from Case Western Reserve University in only two-and-a-half years with two majors and two minors, including a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science, and received her Juris Doctorate in just two years from California Western School of Law.

State Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

Federal Bar Admissions

United States District Court, Southern District of California
United States District Court, Central District of California

Professional Memberships

Association of Certified Family Law Specialists
San Diego County Bar Association
San Diego Family Law Bar Association
Lawyers Club of San Diego
La Raza Lawyers Association
Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
American Association for Justice
State Bar of California, Family Law Section